Material found washed ashore in Australia examined in hunt for Flight 370

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In this map provided on Wednesday, April 23, 2014, by the Joint Agency Coordination Centre, details are presented in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean. The hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet will likely soon deploy more powerful sonar equipment that can delve deeper as the current search of the most likely crash site in the Indian Ocean has failed to yield any clues, Australia's defense minister said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Joint Agency Coordination Centre)

Materials that were found washed ashore on an Australian beach are being investigated for any connection to the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, according to a Fox News story.

The material, which was not identified, washed ashore near Augusta in Western Australia, about 190 miles from Perth. According to the story, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau is looking at photographs of the material to try to determine if it is connected to Flight 370.

Meanwhile, the air search for the missing plane was suspended a second day due to bad weather. Australia's prime minister said the search would continue for the plane, and that new sonar equipment was being brought to the search area to help map the ocean floor there.

"If at the end of that period we find nothing, we are not going to abandon the search, we may well rethink the search, but we will not rest until we have done everything we can to solve this mystery," Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said.

"We owe it to the families of the 239 people on board, we owe it to the hundreds of millions -- indeed billions -- of people who travel by air to try to get to the bottom of this," he said.